At the Louis Braille Museum, the same tour for everyone.
How the museum made its sensory tour accessible, in-house, in a few days.
Coupvray · for the 2026 Rendez-vous aux jardins garden event.
The Garden of the Five Senses, in Coupvray.
The Louis Braille Museum stands in Coupvray, in the birthplace of the inventor of braille. Accessibility is a reason for being. For the Rendez-vous aux jardins event, the museum built a tour through its Garden of the Five Senses. A sensory path about perception, from Plato’s cave to the birth of braille.
One requirement remained: this tour had to address everyone, including visitors with sight loss. With a simple conviction. Accessibility is not separate content. It is the same content, for everyone.
“A person with sight loss does not want a tour just for them. They want access to the same one as everyone else.”
A few days, one director, no agency.
No agency budget, and no months to spare. So the director took Gidmi in hand herself, in a few hours. She created two tours, one for adults, one for children. Then she took the adult tour and rewrote it with the assistant: one tour in easy-to-read language, another optimised for visitors with sight loss. The same content, made accessible, in a few days.
In the app, reading is optimised for screen readers. Anyone can adjust the text size, turn on the OpenDyslexic font or high contrast. We build Gidmi following the requirements of the French RGAA and WCAG 2.1 AA.
Above all, Gidmi carries the narration and the audio. A real voice, music: far more than text read by a screen reader. Visitors with sight loss no longer just hear the tour: they live it. A simple code to scan opens it, with no app to install.
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The same story, for all.
Every visitor can follow the tours, with the same richness. Visitors with sight loss like everyone else. The museum did it in-house, without an agency. That is the whole proof: making its mediation accessible, in its own voice, did not require an agency. Just the right tools and a little time.
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